Word: notebooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Barnard Associates were founded to "emulate John Barnard of the Class of 1700, who was fond of good books and did what he could for Harvard." This is the fourth publication of the society which has already issued facsimiles of the Shelley Notebook and one of Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass," both owned by the College Library...
...soon entertained by the hospitality of Sibelius and his wife. Of the composer's appearance he says only a word: "His head was impressive; the mass of Strindberg's without the madness." The interview was typical of the author. He was not, like Boswell, "out with his notebook and pencil as soon as the car left the gate." In his own words, he says, "To me it all seems to have passed in a dream, ending with a stirrup-cup of John Haig and the kindest of partings...
...first novel, The Gray Notebook, begins when pious, portly Widower Oscar-Marie Thibault discovers that his 14-year-old son Jacques has run away from home after getting mixed up in a scandal at school. Guiltless of anything worse than writing high-flown, affectionate, freethinking notes to a young Protestant, young Jacques flees to Marseille with his easy-going friend Daniel, paces the streets and broods about right and wrong while Daniel is befriended by a warm-hearted girl who solves some moral problems for him without a moment's thought...
...Farnsworth Room is not without restrictions--one of the most irksome of which is that coats and notebook must be checked in the cloakroom across the hall--but an effort is made to show the student that the rules are not arbitrary, that by observing them he is maintaining for himself and others the charm and nacfulness of the library. Morever, when he infringes one of these little regulations, he is not made to feel, as he is in the reading room above, that by his negligence he has jeopardized the future of Harvard College...
Edison did this for two years. General Manager Stringfellow kept the memoranda in a black loose-leaf notebook...